Film Reviews Blog

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Sunday 17th May 2020

Synopsis extract :
TV western (minor) star and his sidekick struggling to salvage his career live next door to ...
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Reviewed by Roger, DVD proj @ home on 17 May 2020

Review of "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood"

Another great movie set around the movie busines with a nice twist of alternative history thrown in



Saturday 9th May 2020

2018

Leave No Trace

Director : Debra Granik

Synopsis extract :
Father and daughter (13) for reasons unexplained have been living wild in a national park (in ...
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Reviewed by Roger, DVD proj @ home on 09 May 2020

Review of "Leave No Trace"

It all hinges around the relationship between the father and daughter - the backstory is left almost entirely to imagination (the girl doesn't remember her mother and the father doesn't reveal why he is damaged). Once they are in care (together) she starts to see another world, but eventually the father finds the tappings of civilisation too much and takes them out. For a while it might be going to work, but dad has an accident in the woods whilst going for food and the girl finds a woodland community where they can recover - in the end he still can stick, and she has to make a choice.



Monday 4th May 2020

1971

The Go Between

Director : Joseph Loesey

Synopsis extract :
Edwardian country house nonsense
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Reviewed by Roger, Streamed proj @ home on 04 May 2020

Review of "The Go Between"

Belongs with Wuthering Heights and Brief Encounter (and many more) as English establishment nostalgic propaganda for the status quo. Its all ok cos sometimes relationships across class divides are fruitful. Social mobility is possible so snobbery is ok. No basis is given for any kind of relationship between the Bates character and the Christie one - apart from people saying "he's a bit of a ladies man" - so presumably she is bound to fall for him. The toffs are all unpleasant (to each other and as people) and the plebs are caricatures. (the shot of them sitting on a bench watching the cricket match is particularly insulting). There is nothing of merit here.



Saturday 2nd May 2020

Rated by Roger, Streamed proj @ home on 02 May 2020




Friday 24th April 2020

1938

La Bete Humaine

Director : Jean Renoir

Synopsis extract :
Life (and loves) on the French Railways. ...
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Reviewed by Roger, Streamed proj @ home on 24 Apr 2020

Review of "La Bete Humaine"

8 stars for the railway stuff alone...